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I'm curious why my modern browser "doesn’t support live streaming of the event" according to Apple. It was the same issue last year. I need an Apple product (or a Windows 10 PC with Microsoft Edge) to watch a livestream on the internet. Odd for 2016. Is this really a technical barrier or a marketing/strategic barrier?
1) They have a limited streaming capacity.
2) They gave up on expanding their user base.
Big reveal: robots will now do the dirty work of recycling iPhones, instead of Bangladeshi children.
Apple has such a limited number of products that they can build robots to disassemble said products piece-by-piece, which is arguably a more efficient manner to recycle individual parts. Other companies that have a zillion products would likely find it difficult to achieve the same level of efficiency, because they basically have to "shred" their products and sort the bits out later.
EDIT: Do you have a source on Apple using "Bangladeshi children" for disassembly before today?
I'm curious why my modern browser "doesn’t support live streaming of the event" according to Apple. It was the same issue last year. I need an Apple product (or a Windows 10 PC with Microsoft Edge) to watch a livestream on the internet. Odd for 2016. Is this really a technical barrier or a marketing/strategic barrier?
They use HTTP Live Streaming ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_Live_Streaming ) which is Apple's own protocol and hasn't been adopted by anyone but Microsoft. To be fair, when they first implemented it MPEG DASH was a long way off.
If you paste the playlist URL from another subthread into an open-source HTML5 player [1], it works perfectly. There's literally no reason that Apple couldn't embed this on their home page except stubbornness.
For those who aren't in a position to watch the video, Ars Technica is doing their usual live blog http://live.arstechnica.com/apples-march-2016-event/
Seriously Apple ...
'Apple refuses to stream on your browser' would be a better message
Big reveal: robots will now do the dirty work of recycling iPhones, instead of Bangladeshi children.
I think this is showing another benefit of focusing on a smaller number of products and controlling their development from (virtually) top-to-bottom. Apple has such a limited number of products that they can build robots to disassemble said products piece-by-piece, which is arguably a more efficient manner to recycle individual parts. Other companies that have a zillion products would likely find it difficult to achi…
Big reveal: robots will now do the dirty work of recycling iPhones, instead of Bangladeshi children.